| Internal rhyme | Rhyme in which at least one of the rhyming words is somewhere within a line of poetry; both rhyming words are often in the same line. Examples: Every other line in "The Cloud" by Percy Bysshe Shelley has internal rhyme: "I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the Sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. " |